Enterprise Networks Know Who Connected. AI Agents Make the “Why” Harder
We spent decades teaching networks to recognize people, devices, and applications. AI agents are about to make that considerably more complicated.
A few years ago, I was on a troubleshooting call when someone asked a question every network engineer eventually hears: “Does anyone know what that device is?”
We had a MAC address and an IP address. We knew which switch it was connected to, which network it belonged to, and where it was communicating. What we didn't know was why it was there.
Eventually, someone figured it out. It was a perfectly legitimate device, installed long enough ago that nobody on the call remembered it. Mystery solved.
I hadn't thought about that kind of incident in a while. Then I started thinking about AI agents, because we are about to introduce something much stranger into enterprise infrastructure. This time, the problem isn't an unknown device. We may know exactly...
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